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07-31-2007, 11:55 AM
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What is the name of your state? Illinois
My husband got two parking tickets for parking on the street during a street cleaning in Chicago. The tickets are for the same offense but written at two different times by two different officers. Is this legal? The first ticket was still on the car when the second ticket was written. Should he contest this or just suck it up and pay?
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07-31-2007, 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by lizwin  What is the name of your state? Illinois
My husband got two parking tickets for parking on the street during a street cleaning in Chicago. The tickets are for the same offense but written at two different times by two different officers. Is this legal? The first ticket was still on the car when the second ticket was written. Should he contest this or just suck it up and pay?
- Ticket weary in Chicago | Was the car parked there at both times cited? If yes, then the tickets are valid.
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07-31-2007, 03:29 PM
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| | | Had he moved his vehicle, he would not have gotten 2 tickets.
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07-31-2007, 04:43 PM
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| | 2 parking tix for same day/offense Chicago
In response to Zigner: Yes the car was parked there all day...no one was home and it was not moved at all on that day. It just sat accumulating those two tickets. Can they just keep ticketing like that? If so, what's to stop them from giving people 10 tickets or some such silliness? |
07-31-2007, 08:13 PM
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| | | I don't understand why you think it is silliness. The first ticket was a "reminder" to move the vehicle. When they came back and saw that the vehicle was still in violation of the law, they gave another. Now, if the tickets were 10 or 20 minutes apart, while still legal, I would dispute it.
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07-31-2007, 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by lizwin Can they just keep ticketing like that? If so, what's to stop them from giving people 10 tickets or some such silliness? | Yes, they can keep ticketing like that. You're right, there is nothing stopping them from writing out ticket after ticket. If an officer is so incline, he could stand by your car all day and write a new ticket every minute. So what's stopping them? They have better things to do. Stop parking illegally and you won't have this problem anymore. | |
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